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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, The New Russia, Chapters 58-63 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sweden, overextended at the peak of its power, ruled Estonia, Ingria, Finland, Karelia, Western Pomerania, Livonia, and ports near what location?
(a) Croatia.
(b) England.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Spain.

2. Protestants sought to keep Charles XII apart from whom?
(a) Leopold I.
(b) Augusus II.
(c) Peter.
(d) Louis XIV.

3. Peter dealt harshly with robbers and beggars, especially ones who ________________.
(a) Threatened foreigners.
(b) Threatened children.
(c) Threatened the ill or handicapped.
(d) Threatened women.

4. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
(a) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.
(b) Georg-Johann Korb.
(c) Johann-Georg Korb.
(d) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.

5. Catherine first married Peter quietly in _______, and later, with full pomp in ________.
(a) 1707, 1708.
(b) 1705, 1706.
(c) 1711, 1712.
(d) 1709, 1710.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?

2. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?

3. What did the author note Peter seemed to identify as the key while he embarked on his "Great Embassy" travels?

4. Peter was able to launch a disciplined infantry line which enveloped ________/

5. Upset by Sophia, whom did the boyars rally around?

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